The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Style

Narration/Narrative/Narrator
There is an almost dizzying number of levels of narration and narrators in ''The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'': a) Washington Irving is the author of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. ; b) Geoffrey Crayon is the fictional author of the volume, the one responsible for collection or creating the stories and sketches; c) Diedrich Knickerbocker is the character who supposedly wrote down ‘‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,’’ and in whose hand the postscript was ' found,'' presumably by Crayon; d) the legend was told to Knickerbocker by a...

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